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Audience Rating: UnratedBinding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304672129 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6304672128 Label: Adv Films Languages: Manufacturer: Adv Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Adv Films Release Date: November 11, 1998 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Adv Films Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1997 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Gamera, Japan's favorite jet-propelled giant flying turtle, was Daiei's child-friendly answer to Toho's Godzilla franchise. This decidedly juvenile staple of the 1960s became a modest success, but those early features, with cut-rate special effects and gooey child stars, rate little beyond camp nowadays. With such a legacy, his 1995 rebirth Gamera, Guardian of the Galaxy, is a delightful surprise. Now taking over the franchise, Toho comes through with an old-fashioned giant monster adventure in candy colors with excellent special effects and an attitude that straddles serious science fiction and outrageous spectacle. Gamera, still a hero of the people, is given a mythic back-story and a foe of apocalyptic dimensions, the flying people-eating lizard Gyaos that the government, in all its misguided wisdom, decides to protect while attacking the misunderstood Gamera. There's romance (featuring the best come-on line ever: "Someday I'd like to show you around a monster-free Tokyo"), bureaucratic satire, and a well-meaning environmental message, but that's all gravy to the movie's meat: giant monsters battling it out in the traditional Tokyo war zone, laying waste to acres of lovingly detailed miniatures. That's what Japanese monster movies are all about. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating: - This movie has EVERYTHING!The flying turtle! The battle with Gayos! Giant bird poo! Stomping on buildings! And never ride the train in Tokyo because.. the train always gets destroyed! Gamera always gets a little sloppy, and oops! There goes another building! I'm running out of exclamation points!!! I was a fan of these films when I was a kid, and it took me by suprise that there was a remake in the 90's. I picked up the boxed set and was pleasantly surprised to find that they kept the man-in-the-suit look, ... Read More Rating: - Return of The KaijuMega-turtle Gamera sleeps in the deep and is summoned forth by a girl who retains a sympathetic connection through a comma-shaped rock pendant, to do battle with an old enemy in Gyaos, the monster pterodactyl who feasts on human beings. Gamera's whereabouts are divulged when a team of oceanographers discover an island which conceals a mystical megalith encribed with actual Futhark runes, describing the prophesy of the monsters returning when the world is in perceived environmental peril.* The ... Read More Rating:  - a new turtleAfter years of not being on Shuesko kaneko decided to direct a brand new gamera series(Yeah!)In the beggining a giant rock is in the middle of the ocean.A man is in a store looking for food for a man when a young japense girl named asangi is the mans daughter.so they dig up some of the rock and an ancient stone is inside of it.At japan mutant bats/birds are attacking japan. Rating: - The More Mature GameraThis first in the trilogy pits Gamera against his long time and fan favorite foe Gyaos. The Gamera series takes a more mature tone and drops the childish themes the series was originally known for. This movie along with the following two focuses on adults and has nothing to do with children. Good film with excellent storyline and acting. This probably has the weakest special effects out of the trilogy, but that doesn't mean that the fx are terrible, quite the opposite, the special fx are amazing, nothing extremely ... Read More Rating: - Good but not great like everyone says.Godzilla, a great movie was released in 1954, it was about a giant monster that attacked japan, it was a success, in japan and america, many succesful sequals were inevitable. so naturally everyone wanted to dublicate the success,even countries like korea gave it a try with yonggary(a overall terrible film).most were just one shots that were forever outshined by godzilla films but one series was fairly succesful, still nothing compared to the godzilla movies of the time, it was gamera a giant dectructive turtle that ... Read More |
